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A Reformed Baptist's Disk

The BCF Assistant

the London Baptist Confession of Faith of
1677/89

The BCF Assistant is a new and enlarged form of the
original BCFHelpprogram. The electronic
text in The BCF Assistant has been transcribed from a microfilm
copy of an original 1677 Confession. All the old English and even misspelled
words have been retained in an attempt to produce a near facsimile
to the original text. If you desire to use the commonly used text this is available in
the older BCFHelp on this site.

Although the Confession was originally published in 1677,
it was done so anonymously due to the persecution of the times. In 1689
this Confession was publicly subscribed to by church representatives at
the Association meeting held in London that year and as such has become commonly
known as the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith or The Second London
Baptist Confession of Faith.

The BCF Assistant has several extended features to those found in the BCFHelp, program. Some of these additional features include:

Original 1677 Confession text.

The opening letter to "the Judicious and Impartial
Reader" from the 1677 text.

The Appendix to the 1677 text in which the authors defend
their Baptistic Principles and Convictions.

Chapter Outlines taken from Samuel E. Waldron's book,
A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, (Evangelical
Press, 1989).

A section on the Doctrine and Theology of the Confession
(various authors included Pastors Sam Waldron and Greg Nichols, Grand Rapids,
MI, USA).

A section outlining some of the Historical Background
of the Confession and how it came to be, including some biographical information
on some of those who were signatories to the Confession in 1689. This section
principally comes from Dr James Renihan (Institute for Reformed Baptist
Studies, Escondido, CA, USA.).

The opening address to the reader and the appendix are of particular interest because these are not commonly published in book form along with the Confession.

The BCF Assistant is copyright, however, it
is distributed as FREEWARE. This means that you are free to copy it, distribute
it and give it to others etc., as much as you like without legal restriction,
as long as the product is distributed "as is", that is, that
it is not modified or changed in any way. As far as I am aware, the text of both the
KJV Bible and the 1677/89 London Baptist Confession of Faith are not copyrighted. Hence, the copyright does not extend to these texts, only
to the form and organisation in which they are found in BCF Assistant.
All the contributed materials (mentioned above) remain the property of
the individual authors and permission must be obtained for their reproduction.

The BCF Assistantcomes with no warranty
what so ever. You use it at your own risk.